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by pfdietz 1350 days ago
The extreme complexity of biology. There's no substitute to just trying things and seeing if they work, because you will never understand what's going on beforehand.
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funny how many of blockebuster drugs were discovered by accident.
And for some that were designed to hit a specific target, it was discovered afterwards that they work by a completely different mechanism.